The fewer amount of text make the MAG 7 chart more readable. In addition the star scale size are larger on the S & T Pocket Star Atlas and easier to read at that size. If the charts can be printer on a larger size paper it would make a good rival to the Pocket Star Atlas, however it would not be water proof.
Detail of the Star Map from the showing the North Polar region. This map was made around the year 700, around the reign of (705-710). Constellations of the three schools were distinguished with different colors: white, black and yellow for stars of, and respectively.
The whole set of star maps contained 1,300 starsThe Dunhuang map or Dunhuang Star map is one of the first known graphical representations of from ancient, dated to the (618–907). Before this map, much of the star information mentioned in historical Chinese texts had been questioned. The map provides a graphical verification of the star observations, and are part of a series of pictures on one of the.
The astronomy behind the map is explained in an educational resource posted on the website of the, where much of the research on the map has been done. The Dunhuang Star map is to date the world's oldest complete preserved star atlas. Contents.History Early in 1900s (decade), a walled-up cave containing a cache of was discovered by Chinese in the. The scroll with the star chart was found amongst those documents by when he visited and examined the content of the cave in 1907. One of the first public mentionings of this script in Western studies was from 's 1959 version of the book Science and Civilisation in China.
Since that time, only a few publications have been devoted to the map, nearly all being Chinese publications. Colors The symbols for the stars are divided into three different groups. The groups are presented in three colors representing the 'Three Schools of Astronomical tradition'. ColorChinese AstronomerCommentsBlack(甘德)Red(石申)White(巫咸)There have been inconsistencies in his works. He is generally known as the astronomer who lived before Gan and Shi.YellowOthersSee also.References.
These names of that have either been approved by the (its has since 2016 been publishing a 'List of IAU-approved Star Names', which as of June 2018 included a total of 330 proper names of stars ) or which have been in somewhat recent usage. See also the, which give variant names, derivations, and magnitudes.Of the roughly 10,000 stars visible to the, only a few hundred have been given proper names in the history of astronomy. Traditional astronomy tends to group stars into, and give proper names to those, not to individual stars.Many star names are in origin descriptive of the part of the asterism they are found in; thus, a corruption of the Arabic -فخذ الدب- fakhth al-dubb 'thigh of the bear'.
Only a handful of the have individual proper names not depending on their asterism; so 'the scorcher', 'like Mars', (of uncertain origin), 'the solitary one', 'kinglet'; and arguably 'the follower' (of the ), 'preceding the dog Sirius'. The same holds for, where most stars are enumerated within their asterisms, with a handful of exceptions such as 織女 'weaving girl'.In addition to the limited number of traditional star names, there are some coined in modern times, e.g. 'Avior' for (1930), and a number of (mostly in the 20th century). Few of these names have established pronunciations in English, and care needs to be taken when interpreting our often contradictory sources. For example, as Kunitzsch & Smart explain in their introduction, they sometimes blend Arabic and English pronunciations in novel ways that Latinized Arabic star names were not, such as transcribing a as if it were u, or making ante-penultimate vowels long because they were long in Arabic when a literary English pronunciation would make them short. (In some cases, the result is not a possible in English.) Webster's dictionary, Rumrill and Davis may attempt to render the original Arabic pronunciation using as approximations, and not distinguish that pseudo-Arabic pronunciation from an English pronunciation that people actually use.
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